Eine Erhöhung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf 12 Euro zum 1. Oktober 2022 hätte in Deutschland nur geringe Inflationseffekte zur Folge. Dies zeigen Simulationsrechnungen mit dem makroökonomischen NiGEM-Modell, die auf Daten zur Lohnverteilung aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)...

This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...

Using eight rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning 16 years and exploiting the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in 2001 as a large export shock, we investigate the impact of this shock on intergenerational occupational mobility in Vietnam employing a...

According to empirical studies, a statistically significant factor for German exports success is high cost (or price) competitiveness. Studies by Deutsche Bundesbank recommend correcting the nominal effective exchange rate by broad cost (or price) indicators (Deutsche Bundesbank, 1998, 2016a)....